A Grave is Given Supper (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
144
Utgivningsdatum
2020-09-10
Förlag
Deep Vellum Publishing
Illustratör/Fotograf
Illustrations tying the poems in the book to the cover art spread throughout the text
Illustrationer
9 B&W illustrations
Dimensioner
201 x 124 x 13 mm
Vikt
182 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781646050109

A Grave is Given Supper

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A Narco-Acid Western told in a series of interlinked poems, Sotos striking debut collection follows the converging paths of two protagonists through El Sumidero, a fictional US/Mexico border town where an ongoing drug war is raging. The surreal verse of Sotos poems portrays a bleak political climate as it coincides with the rituals of love & loss, culture & spirituality, & the quest for a better life at all costs. Following the narrative arc of Alejandro Jodorowskys classic cult film, El Topo, A Grave is Given Supper builds a world saturated with a mystical aura that describes the finite tensions & complicated desires of lives taking place in the borderland.
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    Soto uses themes from the ongoing drug war taking place in a fictional U.S./ Mexico border town to weave a narco-tinged &quote;Acid Western&quote; told in a series of interlinked poems following the arc of Alejandro Jodorowsky's film, El Topo.

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Adapted into an original literary-theatric performance by Teatro Dallas directed by Claudia Acosta and starring Elena Hurst LONGLISTED for Reading the West Book Award The landscape in A Grave is Given a Supper recalls the tones of Frank Stanford, steeped with our phantasmagoric Texan borderlands. Soto offers up each poem like a votive candle, wreath of roses, or weapon, to lay on the altar of the outlaw Jesus Malverde, announcing the arrival of a new literary voice. Fernando A. Flores, author of Pig Latin and Stuck on a Razor Soto describes insects, femicide and the border wall in mystical terms. Jaime Dunaway, Advocate Mag A surreal exploration of the Mexican drug war written in free verse While many poems traversedreamlike terrain, theyre also sometimes grounded in reality. This is where the book is most gripping and provocative. Tim Diovanni, Dallas Morning News On Dallas Spleen and previous work: Soto drives a relentless narrative from poem to poem a narrative composed of equal parts joy and rage. The Literary Review Soto eases into discomfort and renders it stunning. Katy Dycus, The Wild Detectives There is a deep, inescapable sadness in many of Mike Sotos poems but it is a sadness for the world and never himself. Its wrong to stereotype poets, even positively, but I think Sotos Mexican literary heritage is deep in his bone marrow. Its a rich, earthly, mystical tradition in which to have ones taproots. These poems of light and life are compressed, but never crushed.Thomas Lux "Feeling distant, far from family and the place that has given me the deepest sense of home, I resolved to write about individuals on a journey of self-actualization despite living in such a climate of violence, but I wanted to take that furtherthere were already enough portrayals of economic empowerment and ego empowermentand make it a quest for a kind of enlightenment." Mike Soto on his work in A Grave is Given SupperLit Hub's Combines neoclassicisms equal temperament, the incisive excesses of the metaphysical poets, and Jamie Sabines-like political sensibilities.Joe Milazzo, ENTROPY Its been wonderful workshopping with Mike and adapting his words for the stage. A lot of our team are first-or second-generation people who have experienced some of the things touched on in the show: migration, drug wars, a journey from Mexico to the U.S.Teatro Dallas "Across the book, poems spastically display the weight of both people and landscape in heartbreak and obituary...Holding the book together is the poets consistency of tone; Sotos poems never falter at being both maturely concise and emotionally staggering." Greg Bem, Rain Taxi

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Mike Soto is a first generation Mexican American, raised in East Dallas and in a small town in Michoacn. He is the author of the chapbooks Beyond the Shadows Ink, and most recently Dallas Spleen (Deep Vellum). He received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, & was awarded the James Merrill Poetry Fellowship by Vermont Studio Center in 2019. A Grave Is Given Supper is his debut collection of poetry.